LOOKING THROUGH THE CORNERS OF EYE

Turn the pages of the past

Open the window for the vast

See what’s done for the future

Think of stuff that nourishes nature.

                     Find if the ways to end is curved

                     Ensure the thorns in life is cleared

                     Go through the lines full of dreams

                     By holding the colourful hopes.

Sometimes, one may see the pits in the ways

Try to fill it up with different ways

At last a huge mountain, climb it

A victory will await behind it-

A glazing victory!

     ~JASEELA P.K

BOOK REVIEW

                                 BALYAKKALA SAKHI

                       ‘Balyakkala sakhi is’ one of the famous love stories of Vaikam Muhammed Basheer. It is an everlasting work of Malayalam literature.No reader can forget the characters Majeed and Suhra and their tragic love. The story of novel depends on their love affair.

                           In the beginning of novel, the writer tells us about their childhood. Majeed belongs to a high class family. But his neighbor Suhra is very poor. They grew up together by seeing the pains and joys of life. Along with that their love also began to grow as a secret one. But situations changed in both of their life. Majeed was forced to leave his home by his father and when he returned things were different. Suhra was married and it made him very desperate. He tries to meet her and understands that she is not happy in her marital life. The story goes on. Majeed gets involved with marring off his sisters and making his life move forward with his job as a news paper boy in the city. He gives up the job when he looses his left leg in an accident. He does not inform this to any one. One day he gets a letter from his mother and happened to know that Suhra is dead. He lives on by earning money from cleaning the vessels in hotel.

                            This story is a simple and touching love story of Majeed and Suhra. It has a powerful theme and rhythm. This story gives memorable experience to the reader’s minds.

FOR GAZA

Gaza, oh my Gaza! My heart beats

For you my Gaza!

My tears shed for your needs…

What are you now, my Gaza…?

An isolated little prison?

My Gaza…how breaks your days?

I see your body in red colour

The redness

Now signifies the slaughtered land.

You…known for your holiness

Now remains as the arena of bloodshed.

What do you wish from me Gaza,

To stop your screams in my ears?-

…Help to stop the malicious hands…

Let me say to the world,

A real dual maybe in vain;

Rather take the holy verse

And pour the message of peace

Unto the ear holes of the wolves-

Let the magical spell work on them

And the evil minds stop,

In the anchor of the beneficent good-doers.

~SHAIMA V. P.

Peace

Peace

What is peace?

Peace is like a heaven-

To be enjoyed without restrictions.

Peace, like real freedom

Freedom, what is it?

It is like paradise.

Our government offer freedom to us

But…no people feel real freedom.

A new baby is born into the chains of restrictions.

Girl, controlled by her husband

Mother, by her children,

Until her death

No peace, no freedom.

Death - peaceful than birth!

 ~SALHA. C

WE CAN DO IT

Her very birth is a fight,

In this cruel world of might.

Struggle follows her everywhere;

But in her, she has that flare-

The flare to move on and achieve,

The flare to take care and perceive.

Girl is the second name of Hope,

She’s not a silly dope.

Girls conquer and prove,

Be it the land or the sky.

Girls never miss a try.

She rules the office; she rules the home.

She can discover elements, she can discover syndromes.

Unfortunate is the very existence of those who ridicule this gender;

Who degrade their being and call them a blender.

Let them not forget that they are here because of women.

Girls can not only do, but have already done everything-

To show they are in power.

~ Fathimathu Nuzra 

I KNOW LIFE IS TOO SHORT

I woke up in the morning

With regrets! I love the

People who treat me right

Forgive the ones who don’t.

I believe that I know

Everything happens for a reason.

If you get a chance, take it;

If it changes your life let it.

No one said it be easy,

We can just promise

It would be worth it.

~ Faseela. P

RAINY DAYS

Now, every dawn is born into the chill that the rain has put back in her and how fine it is to cuddle into the blanket in the mornings. I was just remembering those rainy days, with the bag on my back and the Poppy umbrella held by two hands and walking with other children from school to home. Most of the days, it will be raining afternoon. Before the noon I was not careful about that because I had to drink much rain flowing from my eyes while defeated by my mom and travelling to the school in an autorikshaw. The evenings were heavy with rain. As my home was nearer, walking was very slow; looking at the frog in the field, water snake in the brook and fishing was the interesting one. I used to fish with my shawl, took them home and distributed them to my neighboring children. It was rare such fishes survived in our small pots and bottles and I had thrown them into the well. Once, we children were walking along the brook and suddenly a loud scream was heard. I saw a girl ten feet in front of me crying and suddenly I noticed one sandal was tumbling and falling in the heavy flow of water and without even removing my bag, I jumped into the stream, caught the sandal in my hand and threw it to the girl. She gave me a startled smile. I was totally wet and my mom was very angry that whole day. Another day, I lost my umbrella. Two of us were sitting near the brook on the lookout for fishes. The water was almost full and my friend told me that if I gave my umbrella she would test the depth of the water in the brook. I gave it, she tested and we didn't see the way the umbrella got carried away with the current. It just slipped out from her hands due to the heavy flow at the bottom level. We ran along the brook, checking whether it was coming to the top anywhere. She was consoling me while we walked; I wasn't in tears but full of horror, thinking of what to tell my mom. Those days are now caught by new children. A house now stands in the place of the field. The brook has been cemented and polished along the bottom and side walls. Will there be fishes? Will they be comfortable? Will children see frogs there? ....Times change.

~AYISHA YASMIN.A. 

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                                                                                                                      Shamna.M